Ebooks in EducationDawn NelsonISD 279, Osseo Area Schoolsnelsond@district279.org@dawnrnelson

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E-Book Revolution• E-books take many forms, including online

textbooks, digital copies of print books, digital-only books and enhanced e-books with interactive features. This workshop will discuss the varieties of e-books and the features of different e-readers and their uses for education as well as best practices for managing them. Attendees will also explore online e-book resources, be introduced to a variety of online information portals for e-books and review ways to write and publish e-books.

Outcomes for Today• Become familiar with the different aspects of ebooks.

• Gain knowledge of ebook resources to enable the best decisions to meet future needs.

• Embrace the chaos---the world of ebooks and ereaders is new and unsettled, ever-changing

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Knowledge Share• Today’s Meet

• http://todaysmeet.com/ties2012ebooks

• Google Doc• http://d279.us/ebooks2012

Share & Share & DiscussDiscuss

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Ebooks in Your World

What is your experience with ebooks personally?

What is your experience with ebooks in your school?

What do you anticipate for your school?

• “One thing about eBooks that most people haven't thought much is that eBooks are the very first thing that we're all able to have as much as we want other than air. Think about that for a moment and you realize we are in the right job.“

• Michael S. Hart

• Project Gutenberg founder, July, 2011

Where We’ve Been

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Some of the Earliest known books or Codecs

First century BC

Linotype Machine

To Today

What’s Ahead?

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How Much Change - Really?

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• Book-length publication in digital form, consisting of text, images, or both, and produced on, published through, and readable on computers or other electronic devices.

Ebooks Began• Project Gutenberg:• 1971 – “On July 4 1971, after being inspired by a free

printed copy of the U.S. Declaration of Independence, he decided to type the text into a computer, and to transmit it to other users on the computer network.”

• The first email was sent between two computers this year.

• Now - over 36,000 free ebooks to download to your PC, Kindle, Nook, Android device, iPad, iPhone, etc.

• Work is done by volunteers • High quality, proof read work• http://www.gutenberg.org/catalog/• http://www.gutenbergnews.org/ • http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Michael_S._Hart • http://www.gutenberg.org/

Slow Start

Baby Steps• Voyager Company founded –

expanded books on CD• First 50 books on floppy disks with

Digital Book Format (DBF)• First Ereader and first ISBN given to a

digital book • Steven King’s Riding the Bullet offered

only in digital form. 400,000 downloaded in 24 hours.

• Amazon launches Kindle

• Nook Introduced

198519851993199319981998200020002007200720092009

2010 – A Very Good Year

• IPad Introduced with Ibooks• Google Bookstore Opens – 3,000,000 titles

• Amazon announced that ebook sales outnumbered hardcover book sales.

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Where to find them

• Publicly funded resources•Public libraries

• Hennepin County Library•Electronic Library of MN (ELM)

Where Do You Find Them?

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Commercial Services

• Overdrive• Expensive• Yearly subscription

• 3M Cloud Library• Public library focus

• Follett Shelf• Works well with Destiny library catalog

• Mackin VIA

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VIA

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Publishers and Services - Just a Start• Capstone• InfoBase• ABDO• EBSCO• ProQuest - EBrary• Tumblebooks

• Subscription based • Audiobooks

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Other Online Sources

• Free E-Books.com• Project Gutenberg• Elibrary• ICDL

What’s Available for Information and Support ?

• Ebook Educators’ Group

• Ebook Binder - http://www.livebinders.com/play/play/69250

• Ebook LibGuide – Buffy Hamilton - http://theunquietlibrary.libguides.com/ebooks-ereaders

Time to Think, Talk, and Explore -

Find one or two tips for deploying ebooks.

Record them to share with the group.

E-Readers: Making Readers Out of More People Than Ever• 53 percent of those who buy ereaders

say they’re reading more now than they did six months ago, and just 15 percent of e-reader owners say they stop buying printed books as well.

We are reading.

http://www.techi.com/2011/11/e-readers-making-readers-out-of-more-people-than-ever/

Between November, 2010, and May 2011

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Osseo’s Adventure Thus Far• Purchased Nooks, Kindles, and iPads• Unlimited devices on one account

• 20 Nooks at the high schools• 3 Kindles – just to test them. Professional titles

mainly.• Nooks

• Daily 5• Book Clubs• Using the Barnes & Noble Management Feature

• iPads

We Will Go Forward with Nooks

• Management• Features and quality of the device• Local Service

Time to Think, Talk, and Explore -

Explore some of the ebook links or share some that you know.

Record your ideas for the group.

To Think About -

What Are the Biggest Obstacles to Adding Ebooks in the near future?

What are some steps to get over the obstaces?

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXZVqaSPUUg&feature=relmfu

• ^ Gardiner, Eileen and Ronald G. Musto. “The Electronic Book.” In Suarez, Michael Felix, and H. R. Woudhuysen. The Oxford Companion to the Book. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010, p. 164.